Kitchen utensil



w. HoDGEs z-:T AL 1,740,302

MAMMA/00655,

Patented Dec. 17, 1929 STATES PATENT WILLAM HODGES AND WALTER F. HODGES, 0F EHILADELPI-IIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AS- SIGNORS T0 WILLIAM HODGES @t COMIEANY, A PARTNERSHIP GUMPOSED OF WIL- LAJVI I-IODGES AND WALTER F. HOBGES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANA KITCHEN UTENSIL Application filed September 17, 192B.

This invention7 generally stated, relates to a device for use in kitchens and has more especial relation to a so-called cream whip or beater.

The leading object of the present invention is to provide as a new article of manufacture a device which is of simple and inexpensive structure and compact in form for use in the kitchens of homes',l hotels, restaurants, clubs, and other places forthe whipping or beating of cream, in which means is provided integral with the beater proper for containing a cooling agent as cracked ice or iced water for obtaining better results in the whipping of cream.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a. device of the character stated in which is provided a stand having companion or twin compartments mounted thereon but separate from one another, of which one compartment is arranged to contain a cooling agent, as cracked ice or iced water, and of which the other compartment contains a rotary beater.

Other and further objects of the present invention consists in the provision of general details of construction and in the arrangement, connection, and combination of parts for attaining the results sought by the foregoing objects- The invention consists of the novel construction hereinafter described and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description talren in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1, is a view in perspective of a cream whip or beater embodying the invention.

Fig. 2, is a view taken upon the line 2-2 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is a View taken upon the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

For the purpose of illustrating this invention, one form thereof has been shown in the accompanying drawings which is at present preferred, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable re suits, although itis to be understood that the Serial No. 306,531.

various` instrumentalities of which the invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that the invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of the instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the reference numeral 1 designates a support, and, shown, consists of a pair of legs 2 of metal each formed in one piece and bent cross-wise in arched fashion and then upwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, to provide a substantially U-shaped support. This structure provides a very light and inexpensive supporting stand and the free ends 3, which are the upper ends, are arranged to engage around the lower convened surface 4 of a casing 5. This lower convexed surface 4 of the casing 5 is also arranged to rest upon the arched portions 6- of each leg 2. The legs may be secured to the casing in any desired way, as by solder. The casing 5 is usually made of metal andisprovided with a pair of adjoining or twin compartments designated 7 and 8. These compartments are separated one from the other by means of an imperforate vertical wall or partition designated by the reference numeral 9. In practice compartment 7 is made smaller than is compartment 8, and is adapted to contain a cooling agent as cracked ice or iced water; and compartment 8 is arrangedY tocontain the whipper or beater. Compartment 7 is provided withthe hat end 10 which is vertically disposed and is in parallelism with partition 9. Partition 9, however, extends above the end 10 of compartment 7 as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3. This extension of partition 9 is designated 11 in Fig. 3. Fixed to extension 11 is a horizontally arranged strip 12,and having hinged relation as at 13 with the strip 12 is a lid or cover 14, provided with downwardly extended iianges 15. These flanges 15 are adapted cooperatively tol engage over certain of the upper edges of the casing 5 in order toprevent atmospheric air from reaching the interior of compartment 7. The hinged cover maybe moved to abut against the extension 11 to retain the cover in openV position for filling. compartment 7 with a cooling' agent.

The larger of the compartments, or that designated 8, is internally provided with a Whipper or beater consisting of a plurality of radially arranged wires 16 bent U-shape and carried by end pieces 17. The end pieces 17 in turn are fixed to a horizontally arranged shaft 18 mounted for rota-tion between partition 9 and the vertical end wall 19 of casing` 5. The end pieces 7 may be of any particular form, but in the present instance are shaped somewhat like a cross, and the arms of the cross-shaped members carry the bent-over ends of the wires 16.` In order to prevent seepage of the contents of both compartments, members 20, rounded upon one side and flat upon the other, are fixed to partition 9 and the end piece 19 of casing 5. rEhese members 2O may be soldered or otherwise aiixed, as desired, and the member upon partition 9 is apertured to accommodate shaft 18. In order to prevent endwise movementof the beater and at the same time to guard against seepage, the arms 17 are provided with annular flanges 21 which abut against the partition 9 and the end piece 19 in alignment with the members 20. The shaft 18 is provided with a handle 22. The upper edge of extension 11, the end piece 19, and the two side walls of compartment 8 are in the form of a bead 23, preferably reinforced by a wire. Arranged to close compartment 8 is a lid or cover 24, preferably formed of met-al and bent over to provide the pendant flanged part 25 which engages the inner walls of compartment 8. The lid or cover 24 is provided with a handle 2G, and the casing 5 as a whole is provided with a pair of handles 27, shown as being riveted as at 28 to the casing 5.

rlhe above described article provides a unitary structure in which cream may be whipped efficiently since the ice or iced Water in compartment 7 cools suciently the contents of compartment 8 to give good cream whipping results. A

.l1/Ve are aware that the invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof, and we therefore desire the present embodiment to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, reference being had to the appended claim rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of the invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A device of the character stated, comprising a support consisting of spaced legs curved at their tops to receive a casingand having an arched, convex portion between said legs, a casing having apair of horizontally arranged adjoining compartments of which one is of less height and smaller than the other, said compartments having a continuous, conveXly curved under surface common to both,

and each compartment having a substantially fiat, vertical, outer end wall, said casing being mounted upon said legs with the said convexly curved undersurface of said casing resting upon the arched convex portions of said legs, an imperforate vertical partition arranged between said compartments in parallelism with said substantially flat ends, and extended above the top of said smaller compartment, the smaller compartment being unobstructed and arranged to contain a cooling agent, and the larger compartment being arranged to contain a commodity to be whipped, a horizontally disposed beater within the larger of said compartments, said beater having a shaft horizontally supported by said vertical partition and the outer flat end wall of said larger Compartment, a cover removably fitted to the top of the larger compartment, and a cover hinged to the top of the smaller compartment, which hinged cover may be moved to abutagainst said imperforate partition to retain said cover in open position for filling the smaller compartment with a cooling agent.

WTLLIAM HODGES. VALTER F. HODGES. 

